In Syria, at least 20 people were killed when a car bomb went off in a town Shehel in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour Province, controlled by the Kurdish fighters. The the London-based watchdog Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing targeted a convoy of the Kurdish self-defence force and oil workers were among the killed. The incident came as the last IS militants planned to evacuate their last area in the eastern Euphrates River region in the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour.